Energy industries and utilities

Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book gathers contributions from scientists and industry representatives on achieving a sustainable bioeconomy.

Power and Energy industry is a highly capital intensive business field.

Power and Energy industry is a highly capital intensive business field.

This book provides insight into how governments are using a variety of innovative fiscal and non-fiscal instruments to develop circular economies with significant economic and environmental benefits.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

Source separation of waste and subsequent recycling processes are promising solutions on the road to a circular economy.

Renewables are a game changer for interstate energy relations.

This book is based on presentations from the Conference 'Arctic Marine Resource Governance' held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015.

The book speaks to the need for a regulatory framework with regards to space resource utilization.

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change.

This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy.

This book highlights the importance of Turkey in diversifying supplies in future European energy security, focusing in particular on the rapidly emerging southern energy corridor.

This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed.

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

This book is the first to propose a simplified quantitative approach to evaluating raw materials' substitution sustainability, which takes into account their embodied energy and CO2 footprint.

This book discusses how civil society, public debate and freedom of speech affect the management of natural resources.

This book examines the factors involved in consumer responses to food produced in regions near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant following the March 2011 Eastern Japanese earthquake, and assesses how responses to reports on food safety and risk of radiation contamination shaped consumer perceptions of and subsequent behavior toward products from the Fukushima prefecture.

This book offers an assessment of new opportunities available for the agricultural sector and provides technical assistance to the Greek authorities with regards to its rural development and fishery sector.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia.

This book explores in detail the challenges which the European gas markets currently face, and the opportunities they present.

This is the first book to provide vital information on key local ecosystems, their functions, state of health, and their role in development in an Asian context, particularly on the Indian subcontinent.

This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity.

This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion.

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain.

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in the energy sector, this book provides a concise overview of the complex challenges in the energy paradigm today, which revolve around the seemingly unsolvable energy equation.

This book provides a multilayered analysis of food import dependency and its impact on food security in the Caribbean region.

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival.

In this timely handbook, one of a series of three, leading contributors from around the world offer practical insight into the challenges and opportunities for using various technologies to tackle microplastic pollution and improve microplastic management in agricultural soil.

This book addresses different aspects of green biocomposite manufacture from natural fibres and bioplastics, including the manufacturing procedures and the physical, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of green biocomposites.

This book presents a succinct overview of research on China's Energy Efficiency as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).

This book describes the Exergy-based Input - Output (ExIO) framework, a comprehensive methodology for assessing the primary fossil fuels requirements for the production of goods and services within a given economy from a lifecycle perspective.

This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems.

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "e;progress.

This book is the outcome of two International Conferences held at the ISEC in Bangalore, India: the international conference on "e;Climate Change and Social-Ecological-Economical Interface-Building: Modelling Approach to Exploring Potential Adaptation Strategies for Bio-resource Conservation and Livelihood Development"e; held during 20-21 May 2015 and jointly organized by the Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) and the Centre for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel, Germany; and the international conference "e;Climate Change and Food Security - the Global and Indian Contexts,"e; jointly hosted by the CEENR, ISEC and the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, on 18-19 February 2015.

Die Energiewende hat schon begonnen.

This book gathers contributions from scientists and industry representatives on achieving a sustainable bioeconomy.

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification, and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

This book addresses the societal aspects of harnessing geothermal resources for different uses, such as power production, heating and cooling.

This book examines the economics of natural resource markets and pricing, as well as the field of natural resource economics in general.

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain.

The book explores the evolving economics of gold as a global commodity as well as the production and trade of gold in and from the African continent.

This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival.

This book presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the production and use of microalgal biomass and bioproducts for energy generation.

This book provides essential information and recent findings on hydro-environmental issues in the Lower Danube River, particularly its hydrological and hydromorphological processes; physico-chemical features; climate and water-related hazards; and not only the biodiversity and quality but also the sustainable management and governance of its hydro-environment.

This book presents a unique analysis of the sustainability performance of various renewable energy sources, based on Brazilian case studies.

This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world's remaining rainforests.

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments.

This edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research.